Author: Joel Kotkin

Crossposted on newgeography With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without

Crossposted on New Geography Few states have offered the class warriors of Occupy Wall Street more enthusiastic support than California has. Before they overstayed their

Crossposted on New Geography Barack Obama learned the rough   sport of politics in Chicago, but his domestic policies have been shaped by California’s progressive creed.

Crossposted on New Geography For generations New Orleans‘ appeal to artists, musicians and writers did little to dispel the city’s image as a poor, albeit

Crossposted on New Geography Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked

Crossposted on New Geography Rick Santorum’s big wins in Alabama and Mississippi place the   Republican Party in ever greater danger of becoming hostage to what

Crossposted on New Geography With gas prices beginning their summer spike to what could be record   highs, President Obama in recent days has gone out

Crossposted on New Majority President Obama’s San Francisco   fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for   Facebook, marks the emergence of

Crossposted on New Geography The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may